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If*SHELTER ANIMALS HOME ABOUT EXPLORE THE DATA GET INVOLVED NEWS &UPDATES SUPPORT COUNT THE NATIONAL DATABASE Participating Organizations Registered/Participating Shelters I California SHELTER ANIShelter/Rescue Type lGovernment Animal Services HE NA. oNAC TNALs COUNT IE To explore the nearly 7,000 organizations who have contributed intake/outcome data to The National Database, select criteria from the drop downs To learn more about an organization, clickon the organization name or circles under the years to see their website. If website is unavailable, the organization needs to enter more recent data or update their website in their data portal. SELECTAREA SELECT ORG NAME ORG TYPE California (All) Government Animal Services Name COUNTY LAST REPORTED 2020 2021 2022 2023 Monterey County Animal Services MONTEREY Apri12023 • • • ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Napa County Animal Shelter NAPA January 2023 • • is O ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Newman Animal Services STANISLAUS Apri12023 Q Newport Beach Animal Shelter ORANGE December 2016 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Oakland Animal Services _ . ALAMEDA Apri12023 • • • 0 OC Animal Care ORANGE December 2020 • There is another nagging question. The shelter routinely cites trends from the national Shelter Animals Count database, but they stopped sending in their data in 2020. See attached screen shot, but you can also observe this by going to the webpage as shown below. https://www.shelteranimalscount.org/about-the-data/ Scroll down to Participating Organizations Select Area: California Organization Type: Government Animal services Scroll though organizations to get to OC Animal Care Last month reported is December 2020 Action is needed At a minimum, these discrepancies show innumeracy and rampant carelessness. Since OCAC/OCCR bear responsibility in making the data so messy, can we trust them to clean it up without outside auditing and oversight? Once someone is caught for producing inconsistent data, there is too much temptation for them to cover up the error by making up new numbers. To go back to accounting, if your accounts are repeatedly incorrect, the imaginative accountant should step aside and an external audit should take place. We need a thorough outside audit that will show what went wrong and how it was fixed, not just with this data but with a slew of misrepresentations that the shelter has made. Animal Counts - Page 6 of 6